Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Togo and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soft Machine to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lungfish,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-101,
The Mummies,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Wasted Youth,
The Golliwogs,
Inner City,
Warren Ellis,
Ten City,
Cal Tjader,
K-Klass,
Sun City Girls,
Moss Icon,
Juan Atkins,
Animal Collective,
Jacques Brel,
Das Ding,
Zapp,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bob Dylan,
The Grass Roots,
The Real Kids,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ken Boothe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Easy Going,
Audionom,
DJ Sneak,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rites of Spring,
Zero Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Black Dice,
Nirvana,
the Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Deepchord,
Jawbox,
Simply Red,
Aural Exciters,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Reed,
Pulsallama,
Intrusion,
The Modern Lovers,
June of 44,
Eden Ahbez,
the Slits,
The Blues Magoos,
Lower 48,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.